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Abitare 547

Communities: the Spaces, the Architecture, the Objects for the Benefit of All. At the newsstands from August 28

The new issue of Abitare is on the newsstands from August 28. 150 pages of stories, projects, ideas and visions dedicated to the theme of the communities, looking at a series of projects and ideas across a wide scale, from a humble park bench to the architecture used by the European Union.

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Abitare 547 content

PROJECTS

The Beating Heart of United Europeby Giuseppe Pullara
In Brussels the new seat of the Councils of the European Union is almost ready. It takes up a whole block, has two “ready-made” façades composed of traditional windows from different European countries and a translucent egg
that encloses the hall of the plenary assembly. Abitare brings you the exclusive first pictures

New York Invests in Educationby Sara Banti
At Ground Zero and the Lincoln Center, two new campuses designed by Pei Cobb Freed confirm the American commitment to education. With special attention to collective spaces and shared identity

A Tropical Suburb in Madridby Carlo Gandolfi
Marcio Kogan from São Paulo tackles the theme of the middle-class housing estate, turning European standards on their head. With greater continuity and many common spaces

Home Sharingby Alice Piciocchi
The extension to an Australian home, built to a design by Andrew Maynard Architects, shows that a detached house can foster close neighbourly relations and ensure privacy at the same time

VISIONS

Theories and Practices of Grandeurby Nicola Casini e Giovanni La Varra
After some years of working in the background, Paris is reopening the question of the destiny of European cities with its new plan of development. Architecture will have the role of proposing scenarios and a new language to politicians in a grand concerted effort that will involve local communities and reshape territories. It all gets under way on the 1st of January 2016

Long Live Diversity (Which for Me Is the Norm)by Sara Banti
He believes in the civil power of architecture and his strength is being able to recognize cultural nuances and getting them to coexist. The Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye tells us why it is so important to give communities a voice today

The Future of Work is Participationby Fabrizio Gallanti
With around seventy branches all over the world, Impact Hub is a system for co-working that in the space of ten years has become a generator of start-ups. Convinced that the time has now come to share and cooperate, the architect Indy Johar, one of its founders, talks to us about the network

STORIES

The art of putting humanity on displayby Cristina Fiordimela
Now light years away from the idea of showing people the eccentricities of folklore, ethno-anthropological museums are experimenting with new strategies of display. The benchmark remains the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, which is shortly to reopen with a new layout designed by the Brochet-Lajus-Pueyo (BLP) studio

The pride of a communityby Michele Calzavara
The new Yunnan Museum in Kunming, the work of Rocco Design Architects of Hong Kong, has chosen a simple system of display in order to take all visitors, above and beyond their individual interests and levels of education, on a journey of discovery of their roots and reappropriation of an ancient identity

Recapturing the Streetsby Giacomo Papi
Over the last twenty years festivals have established themselves as a new way of bringing people together, and not just in Italy. New ones are springing up all the time, in response to simple needs like the pleasure of doing things collectively and creating public space as in the ancient agora. Come to think of it, they answer neatly to the rules laid down in Aristotle’s Politics

Design Born On-lineby Marco Consoli
The large community of houzz.com, with 30 million users and 800 thousand professionals operating all over the world, shows how the digital revolution is changing the sector of the architecture and interior design. Now it has arrived in Italy too: using the modes of the social network it is increasing opportunities, but also putting a strain on customs and codes

The Perfect Islandby Fabrizia Ippolito
It is considered one of the most beautiful (and luxurious) places in the world, but now Capri is about to become the testbed of a grand project for the creation of a smart city and smart community that could thrust it, as if it were a large metropolitan area, into the era of high technology, sustainability and the new economy

DESIGN

A Very Special Test Bedby Marco Sammicheli
On the company campus in Basel, turned into a communication centre some time ago, Vitra has opened Workspace, a research and experimentation area dedicated to the office sector and available to designers and retailers

Objects that simplify our livesby Mia Pizzi
Things that make everyday gestures easier and more immediate save energy and improve all our lives, not just those of people with particular difficulties. They reduce the possibilities of disasters and help people to behave more responsibly. Luckily for us, many firms and designers are now coming up with some very helpful ideas.

Creative exercises for sportby Mia Pizzi
When design is applied to the endless field of physical activity or body care, the equipment, spaces, technologies and objects it dreams up are not only beautiful: they amaze us with their simple yet brilliant solutions to problems, or because of the way they bring different worlds and different idioms together

The fundamental value of the benchby Mia Pizzi
Dictionaries define it as a “seat for more than one person”; and it does indeed bring people together in public spaces. The bench encourages them to get to know each other, to talk and to share. The latest designs experiment with new forms and materials, generating a wide variety of furnishing solutions. Here we present it in the company of its night-time soulmate, the streetlight

Smart vacations by Alice Piciocchi
A stay at the Magdas Hotel in Vienna is a unique experience that gives a sense of pride and encourages acts of solidarity

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22 August 2019

Founded in 1961 by Piera Peroni Abitare magazine has crossed the history of costume, architecture and design, international, following in its pages the evolution of our ways of life and how we inhabit places